Chapter 547 No Rules
"It's arranged. Your adoptive father is old and doesn't sleep well, so I asked Owen to arrange the quietest guest room upstairs for him. Steve's room is right next to him, so he can be taken care of!" Li Jinxing replied softly.
"That's good..." Nie Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief, closed her eyes and murmured, "I'm going to get up early tomorrow..."
"It's okay, they won't arrive until the afternoon..." Li Jinxing kissed her cheek and said softly, "Go to sleep. If there's anything, it's not too late to think about it tomorrow!"
Nie Yao responded softly, but ultimately couldn't resist the overwhelming sleepiness and fell asleep in his arms.
Li Jinxing also adjusted his posture, then turned off the bedside lamp, hugged her and closed his eyes.
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The Nie family's old house.
Except for Nie Xiao, the second son of the Nie family who is studying abroad, and Lin Anqi's mother who went out with her to study, all other members of the Nie family gathered in the old house of the Nie family, just because Old Nie received an invitation letter from the Li family, asking them all to attend the engagement ceremony of Nie Yao and Li Jinxing.
"What's wrong with Nie Yao? She just left without saying a word, and now she's sending us an invitation to attend her engagement ceremony?"
Nie Guanglin, the second son of the Nie family, frowned slightly and complained with some dissatisfaction.
"That's right. Our Nie family is a prestigious family after all. How could they not prepare for such a big event as an engagement in advance? According to the old rules, she should have returned to the Nie family and waited for the Li family to come and propose marriage. Now, all these rules are gone. She just sent us an invitation and that's it?"
The second daughter-in-law of the Nie family also nodded and snorted coldly, "You really don't know the rules..."
Nie Jinxi, who was standing nearby, was also called back from school by her grandfather. As soon as she got back, she received this news. She was filled with envy, jealousy and hatred to the extreme.
Hearing them say this, she suppressed the jealousy in her heart and chuckled softly, saying, "Sister and that Mr. Li Jiu are in a good relationship. Besides, Mr. Li Jiu has already visited our Nie family before, so I think it's best to get engaged sooner rather than later!"
"It was just a visit. Are you sending us off with a mere small gift?" Nie Guanglin sneered, shook his head and said sarcastically, "Besides, she's living with Master Li Jiu, so there's no need to follow any rules. From the outside, wouldn't it look like we're just blindly throwing ourselves at the Li family? Who knows how many people will laugh at us then..."
Father Nie coughed softly, glanced at his brother with dissatisfaction, and retorted coldly, "Master Li Jiu can marry any daughter of a noble family he wants. Now that he's engaged to our A-Yao, I wonder how many people are envious and jealous of him. Who would dare to mock us?"
"Brother, you can't say that. Nie Yao has been living with someone else, which has already broken our rule that children of the Nie family are not allowed to stay overnight outside. This engagement is even more so. If you don't know, you might think that our Nie family needs to marry our daughter off and send her to someone else's bed!"
Before Nie Guanglin could finish his words, he was interrupted by Old Nie: "Enough!"
He didn't dare say anything more and could only look at Elder Nie, smirking and saying, "Dad, I'm doing this for A-Yao's own good. After all, she's your eldest grandson's daughter. I already broke the marriage with the Ji family for her sake. But then that Mr. Li Jiu said something nice, and now he's just dismissing us with an engagement so simply. There's no betrothal gift, and he didn't even send anyone to discuss it with you. All he did was send an invitation. How ridiculous!"
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